Carlton, Nebraska Tornado
June
5, 1908
DEATH RODE THE STORM
Tornado in Nebraska Worse than at First
Reported
Omaha. Neb., June 8 -- Reports from
the scenes of Friday night's storm in southern
Nebraska indicate that the conditions are even
worse than first reported. The death list
will doubtless reach twenty-five or twenty-six,
while the number of injured increase as reports
of havoc wrought by the storm become known.....
Lester Carter, whose wife and children were
killed near Madison is also expected to die....
Eight Nebraska towns suffered from the
effects of the tornado,
Geneva, Fairfield and Carleton being the
worst wrecked.
The Daily Northwestern, Oshkosh, WI 8
Jun 1908
At Carleton five residences and two churches
were destroyed, while a new school building and
thirty houses were badly wrecked. The home
of Lester Carter
was demolished and his wife and baby killed,
while Carter himself and another child received
possibly fatal injuries.
The Daily Review, Decatur, IL 7 Jun 1908
List of the Known Dead
The list of the known dead and injured is as
follows.... Mrs. Maud
Carter and Baby Carter at Carleton
...
Fatally and Badly Hurt.
Fatally injured ....
Press Bailey, Carleton...
Seriously injured ....
Lester Carter and second child,
Carleton.
The Iowa City Citizen, Iowa City, IA 8
Jun 1908
THE DEAD
A revised list of the dead follows
Mrs. Maud Carter
and baby Carter Carleton ...
THE INJURED
Fatally injured
John Merrian
and Press Bailey,
Carleton...
The towns of Carleton
Fairfield
Deshler
Shickley
Geneva Franklin Ong and Riverton are among
those visited by the storm and in no one of them
did the elements spare life or property.
At Carleton five residences and two churches
were utterly destroyed, while a new school
building and thirty houses were badly wrecked.
The Daily Review, Decatur, IL 7 Jun
1908
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